Nordlingpeasant

It's not like it's strange for a people, especially tribal nomads to convert for political reasons. The Timurids for example, a former steppe tribe that settled in the middle east, converted to Islam for political reasons.

Edit: We can also look at the conversions of European barbarians too the Aryan sect of Christianity for political gain.

Edit#2: This is why I think the european jews connection to the holy land is an argument with little evidence to back it up. Outside of the religion

pitenius

The implied argument here is that Jewish claims of birthright are illegitimate. (The greater problem, to me, is that claims of bloodlines and birthright are bullshit -- whether you're the House of Saud or Han Chinese or whatever.) It seems likely to be true, but some zionists deny it with a passion.

In a lot of ways, Islam bought it's empire by promising lower taxes for converts from Eastern Christianities. There's another tale of mass conversion attempted by Shabtai Zvi. When he was proclaimed the Messiah, he immediately converted from Judaism to Islam, expecting his followers to join him.

RedHawk

You're right. The only problem is that historians choose to ignore this particular tribe converting for political reasons as it destroys the whole "Zionism" argument and their claim over the land of Palestine. This is why there is a conspiracy to silence historians from discussing it.

Nordlingpeasant

(I hate when I don't finish a thought) Exactly, that's why I think it's strange that people would deny the Khazar conversion for political gain. But to play devils advocate, there could have been Palestinian Jews that migrated to the Crimean region, Like the Turkic, Celtic, and Gothic migrations taking them far from their place of origin.